Submissions for The Bridge, Volume VII
The Bridge welcomes submissions from all BSC students and alumni!
Download Volume VII Submission guidelines in PDF format.
The Bridge invites submissions for Volume 7 in the Literature categories of Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Drama, and the Visual Art categories of Painting, Drawing, Photography, Digital Art, 3-Dimensional, and Mixed Media. Works accepted will be eligible for The Bridge Award, given for the most outstanding works in Literature and the Visual Arts. Up to seven $200 awards will be granted. Submissions to The Bridge are open to all BSC students and alumni.
General Guidelines: Accepting submissions now through December 18, 2009. All work must be accompanied by a cover letter that includes the submitter’s name, phone number, e-mail, year or graduation date, major, and each entry’s title and genre. Please also include a 20 to 25 word biography. Submissions will be accepted in more than one genre or as multiple works in the same genre, but no more than ten works per genre per person will be considered. The work itself should include only its title, not the submitter’s name.
Literature Guidelines: Prose must be double-spaced. Preference will be given to shorter pieces. Retain a copy of your work, as it will not be returned. Email submissions to: thebridgejournal@bridgew.edu. Deliver hardcopy manuscripts or send via campus mail to: The Bridge, c/o Mail Room (located in the basement of Tillinghast Hall). If sending from off campus, address to: The Bridge, c/o Mail Room, 131 Summer Street, Bridgewater, MA 02325.
Visual Arts Guidelines: We no longer accept electronic art submissions. You may submit work by bringing it to the Art Center, Weaving Loft, during collection times from November 30 to December 18. Please download both the submission form and the biography form, fill them out, and bring them with you in order to expedite the submission process. Please be sure your artwork is either in high-resolution digital format or is photo or scanner ready (unframed). No work will be stored, except for in special circumstances. Specific guidelines will be available after October 1 at our wesite: www.thebridgejournal.com
Send inquiries to thebridgejournal@bridgew.edu.
The Bridge, Volume VII submission times
Submission times will be November 30 – December 18, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Mon–Fri.
The Bridge, Volume V, wins Pacemaker award
At the beginning of November, The Bridge added to its already impressive list of awards by winning the Pacemaker Award -- an honor that is widely regarded as the "Pulitzer Prize" of college publications. Comments about the winners can be read on the Associated College Press blog. About The Bridge, the judges had this to say:
"The top three places were put there in large part by their visual artists and crafts persons. In The Bridge, Despina Cunningham, Derrick J Zellmon, David George Jr., Adrienne Berklend and Nicole Fontenaulf brought it home visually, aided by David Bevens Jr.s’ Linda Brewer '20/20' stylized 'Scarred” (nonfiction) and Leah VanVaerenewyck’s imagistic beginning to 'Sense' (nonfiction)."
The journal also placed third for Best-in-Show. Simply being a finalist for the Pacemaker is an enormous honor; of all the journals entered nationwide, there are only 18 finalists. Only two were from Massachusetts: The Bridge, and Harvard's Tuesday Magazine. The awards were presented to Volume V at the 2008 ACP/CMA National College Media Convention in Kansas City, MO.